POTATO MARKET
POSITION IN CANTERBURY. PLANTING RESTRICTION SUGGESTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 7. Merchants and farmers alike have given the potato market up for this season. Reports continue to come in of quantities of potatoes retained on farms in various parts of the province, but merchants are unable to do anything about the position. The surplus of crop has started a discussion about prospects for next season, and it is being freely suggested that the area to be planted in, potatoes should be strictly limited. • A scheme which has been mentioned is that potato-growers should register, and at the same time notify the area they propose to plant. When the register was completed a revision would be made, and the total area enlarged or decreased according to estimated requirements. Some interest is being taken also in the assurance given by the Minister of Marketing in his address at Waimate this week that he would be willing to work out a scheme if growers wanted it, under which the potatogrower would get a reasonable return for his expenditure.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1938, Page 3
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178POTATO MARKET Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1938, Page 3
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